It’s difficult to imagine how the singer’s demise — in a bath last February — could have been more melodramatic. But now startling new claims suggest an extraordinary twist.
A Los Angeles private investigator, who has probed celebrity drugs cases and suspicious deaths, sensationally alleges that 48-year-old Houston was murdered by two thugs sent by high-powered East Coast drug dealers to collect on a $1.5 million debt.
Former police officer Paul Huebl says he has presented the FBI with what he insists is compelling evidence that Houston was targeted by the two men, who were part of a group of scruffily dressed hangers-on. He says the pair were unknown to most, but not all, of Whitney’s huge entourage, which repeatedly visited her hotel room in her final days.
Incredibly, Huebl even claims the men were captured on the hotel’s CCTV going into the singer’s suite — No. 434 — at the luxurious Beverly Hilton around the time she died.